St. Louis man Waiel Yaghnam sentenced for Sweetie Pie’s murder plot, killing Andre Montgomery

A construction worker was pinned under debris and killed on Friday when the first floor collapsed at a Brooklyn home whose owner had been cited for construction without a permit. The man was found by officers who came to investigate the report of a collapsed building at 1266 50th Street…

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned on Friday that Israel’s blockade of Gaza had put the territory on the brink of severe famine, saying publicly for the first time that the nation’s wartime actions amounted to an “unfolding genocide.” In a speech on the House floor, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat,…

As of Saturday, at least 70 Palestinian journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza, some while covering the conflict, some when they were at home or sheltering with their families, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said it was also investigating “numerous” other reports of journalists…

A shootout that broke out on Monday when a team of law enforcement personnel tried to serve warrants to a suspect in Charlotte, N.C., left four officers dead and another four injured. The shootout, in which the suspect was also killed, was one of the deadliest for American law enforcement…

If there were any notion that George Santos’s expulsion from the House of Representatives might find him in a state of self-worn disgrace, the past several days would appear to prove otherwise. In the 10 days since he was kicked out of Congress, Mr. Santos has carried his hard-won notoriety…

WASHINGTON — Back in the more openly sexist days of Hollywood, writers would get notes on their scripts about women characters. The studio suits would ask questions like, “Can they go to a strip club here?” or “Can you chain her to a wall?” The most common note from male…